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Dates: during 1950-1959
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How do the first abnormal cells get that way? The experts cannot agree. Columbia University's Dr. Samuel Graff expresses the current consensus: all cancerous cells are the result of mutation, and mutations can be set off by many known factors-inherited defective genes, radiation by X or gamma...
Villainous Combination. Many people get cancer, but most do not. Are there no mutated cells in the systems of those who escape? Almost certainly there are, says Dr. George Moore, director of New York's Roswell Park Memorial Institute* in Buffalo, biggest of the few cancer research units operated...
Some 40,000 compounds got preliminary testing last year, with about one in 1,000 showing enough promise to be worth more trials in man, and the rate is expected soon to hit 60,000 a year. First test for every compound involves at least 18 mice, and the consumption...
Effective Drugs. Despite admitted drawbacks, chemotherapy has won a solid foothold. Dr. Charles Gordon Zubrod, 45, NCI's clinical director, responsible for all cancer patients treated in NIH's huge Clinical Center (TIME, July 20, 1953), . lists eight forms of the disease that can often be set back...
Biggest question in prevention today is how the rise in lung cancer-virtually confined to heavy-smoking men-can be checked and reversed. Rod Heller, bureaucrat and son of a tobacco-growing state (although he has never smoked), has weighed all the conflicting evidence and arrived at a forthright conclusion...